Ministry of Education - China
December 16, 2007 – 1:57 pmArticle 1
This Act is enacted to protect people’s rights to learning and education, establish guidelines for basic education, and perfect educational systems.
Article 2
People are the subject of education rights.
The purposes of education are to cultivate modern citizens with sense of national identity and international perspectives by fostering the development of wholesome personality, democratic literacy, ideas of rule of law, and humanities virtues, patriotic education, native soil care and information capability; strengthening people’s physical health as well as their abilities to think, judge and create; and enhancing respect for basic human rights, protection of ecosystems and natural environment, and understandings of and concerns for different countries, ethnic groups, sexes, religions and cultures.
The country, educational institutions, teachers and parents alike shall share responsibilities to facilitate in the realization of the aforesaid education purposes …
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